.Net Data Science

Gain insights from your data quicker and easier than ever before using your own C#!

About This Book

This easy-to-follow guide will help you enter the field of Data Science with C#
Learn to use various .NET APIs and perform exploratory data analysis that starts with a few data journalism questions and ends with intuitive visualizations
Explore the power of C#'s cool Data Science libraries and learn to perform complex computations using this hands-on guide!

Who This Book Is ForIf you are a seasoned C# developer with knowledge of the Microsoft technology stack and a good background in mathematics, then this book is for you. A basic understanding of statistics and probability is necessary to get the most out of this book. This book will also be useful for those data scientists who want to know how to perform data analysis with C#.

What you will learn

Be reintroduced to the world of .NET statistics and calculus libraries and frameworks
Overcome the pitfalls of modeling your data for simple to complex analysis
Use the tools to utilize the statistical models for designing custom Machine Learning applications
Know how to deal with high volumes of data and scale your ASP.NET application to match the performance requirements of your Data Science application
Integrate various tools such as ATOM (ASP.NET MVC), Data Science libraries such as Accord.NET, Python's Natural Language Toolkit, and SWIRL to achieve precise data manipulations and intuitive visualizations
Implement models such as k-nearest Neighbors, Naive Bayes, linear and logistic regression, decision trees, neural networks, and deep learning

In DetailData Science is a new field that is still being defined. It's existed largely in academia and "start-ups," yet stands at the core of the world's most important, fun, and useful software. Because it was traditionally done in an elite academic setting, proprietary software was not included. With Microsoft taking a much more different approach with licensing, Data Science can easily be done with Microsoft tools and is now readily available to C# developers.

This book will re-introduce you to the important parts of statistics and probabilities. From there, we move on to how to apply these principles using C# and C# based libraries. This includes using purely Microsoft technologies such as SSRS, SSIS, PowerShell, SSAS, as well as integrating various .NET libraries available for Data Science.

Once you have realized the potential of various libraries, we'll dive deeper in to implementing concepts of regression, inference, correlation, and causation to devise empirical evidence from your data sets and visualize it. Towards the end of the book, you will learn to implement supervised, unsupervised, and deep learning algorithms and techniques that can be applied to a wide range of real-world problems.